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thereby, thus creating “sympathy” and “antipathy,” which
could not exist apart from memory, because the feelings
resulting from experience alone would be evanescent.
During involution the spirit progressed by growing
bodies, but evolution depends upon soul growth—the
transmutation of the bodies into soul. The soul is, so to say,
the quintessence, the power or force of the body, and when a
body has been completely built and brought to perfection
through the stages and Periods as above described, the soul
is fully extracted therefrom and is absorbed by the one of the
three aspects of the spirit which generated the body in the
first place; thus:
TheConscious soul will b e absorbed by thedivine spirit
in the seventh Revolution of the Jupiter Period;
TheIntellectual soul will b e absorbed b y thelife spirit in
the sixth Revolution of the Venus Period;
TheEmotional soul will be absorbed by thehuman
spirit in the fifth Revolution of the Vulcan Period.
THE CREATIVE WORD
The mind is the most important instrument possessed by
the spirit, and its special instrument in the work of creation.
The spiritualized and perfected larynx will speak the
creative Word, but the perfect mind will decide as to the
particular form and the volume of vibration, and will thus be
the determining factor. Imagination will be the spiritualized
faculty directing the work of creation.
There is a strong tendency at the present time to regard
the faculty of imagination slightingly, yet it is one of the
most important factors in our civilization. If it were not for
the imagination, we would still be naked savages.
Imagination planned our houses, our clothes and our
transportation and transmission facilities. Had not the